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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cossacks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the relationship between Marya and Sergey turn romantic?
(a) In August.
(b) In May.
(c) Over the summer.
(d) In the winter.

2. How does Tolstoy say Cossack men view their wives?
(a) As goddesses.
(b) As beasts of burden.
(c) As equals.
(d) As warriors.

3. Who lives beyond the Muslim Tartars?
(a) Turks.
(b) Christian Cossacks.
(c) Russians.
(d) Lawless mountain people.

4. Who is Sergey Mikhaylych?
(a) A peasant.
(b) A friend of Marya's father's.
(c) Marya's brother.
(d) An overseer on Marya's family's estate.

5. What causes Sergey to say that he and Marya must return to the country?
(a) His affair with a girl in Moscow.
(b) Her pregnancy.
(c) His finances.
(d) Her illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dmitri encounter in the Caucasus?

2. What is the relationship between Christian Cossacks and Muslim Tartars?

3. What does Marya find after she gives birth?

4. What is Dmitri's relation with Maryanka?

5. How does Marya see herself in relation to Sergey, once she begins to be depressed?

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